National Republican., 1887-05-02

Throw them on the invalid's couch. strew
them through the rail.train TO cheer the tray.
eler on his journey. Tack them on the wall
portfolios. God speed the good pictures ON
their @ way with ministries of: knowledge
this art to purposes Of iniquity? These death
warrants OF the soul are at every street corner.
They smite the vision of the young man with
SSnng BUYING
be enough poison in one bad picture to poison
one soul, and that soul may poison ten, andten
fifty, and fifty hundreds. and the hundreds
thousands, until nothing but the measuripgline
Of eternity can tell the height, and depth, and
ghastiiness, and horror Of the great undolng
The work OF death that the wicked author does
half side Of q pictorial Under the guise Of
pure ninth, the young man buys one of these
sheets He unrolls 1t before his comrades
amid loars Of laughter, but long after the pa
The blasted imaginations of those who saw 1t.
The queen of death holds banquet every
night and these periodicals are the printed
brow OF American art should be blotched with
this plegue.spot, and that philanthropsts,
bottle, bsothesing themselves about smaller evils,
should III up no united and vehement voice
Young man buy not this moral strychnine
for your soul Pick not up this nest OF coiled
ssna sdasTs ha Sr PSa@ no
bright with good engravings: but for these
outrageous pictorials have not one wall not
one bureau, not one pocket. A man Is no bet.
ter than the pictures he loves to look at. II
your eyes are not pure, your heart cannot be.
At news stand one can guess the char
aeter OF man by the kind Of pictorial he pur-
chases. When the devil fails Ia. get q man to
read bad book, he sometimes succeeds In
getting him to look at a bad picture. When
Satan goes fishing he does not care whether
d Is bi long Line or short line # he only
pictorials, young man, In the name of Almighty
If have this morning successfully laic,
down any principles by which you may judge
In regard To- books and newspapers, then fhave
done something which shall not be ashamed
on the day which shall try every mans work,
Cherish good books and newspapers. Be-
ware OF the bad ones. One column may save
your soul soul; one paragraph may ruin It; B.nja.
nbers EaS Saa on pnpg ne teea S b
entire life. The assassin of Lord Russell de-.
clared that he was led into crime by reading
one vivid romance. The consecrated John
Angel James, than whom England never pro
duced better man, declared In his old days
that he had never yet got over the evil effects
OF having for fifteen minutes once read a bad
could come near home, and tell you
OF something that occurred In my college
days. l could tell you OF comrade who wa,
great hearted, noble and, generous, He was
had an infdel book In his trunk and he said
to me one day: dewitt. would you like Ia
read it?' said "Yes would" / took the
book and read II only for a few minutes.
was really startled with what saw there, aud
/ handed the book back to him and said
You had better destroy that book" No. he
kept 1t; he read II; he reread 1t. Afterawhile hC
gave up religion as myth. lie gave up God as
q uonenity. He gave up the Bible as fable
He gave up the church OF Christ as useless
institution. lie gave up good morals as being
unnecessarily stringent. ] have heard of him
but twice IN many years. The time before the
last heard of him, he was u confirmed in
ebriate. The last / heard of him, he was
coming out of an insane asylum-in body
mind, and soul an awful wreck i believe tn II
one infidel book killed him for two worlds
Go home to-day aud look through yOuI
library, and then, having looked through y0ul
library, look on the stand where you keeI
yonr piCtOrials and newspapers and apply the
Christian principles have laid down this
morning, II there is anything In your home
that cannot stand the test, do not give II
away, for IL might spoil an immortal soul
do not sell It, for the money You gel
would be the price OF blood, but rather kindo
a fire ON your kitchen hearth, or in your bael
yard, and then drop the poison in 1t, and keel
stirring the blaze until from preface to ap
pendlX, there shall not be a single paragraph
lett and the bonfire in Brooklyn shall be a.
consuming as that one in the streets OF
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